ad infinitum
Americanadverb
adverb
Etymology
Origin of ad infinitum
From Latin
Example Sentences
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But is it the best way to spent $600 million–plus in taxpayer dollars, every year, ad infinitum?
From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2025
A long game of phone tag ensued with assistant reaching out to assistant ad infinitum until eventually Cooper was contacted and he happened to be nearby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023
Scientists don’t currently know whether that expansion will continue indefinitely or, if so, whether it will keep accelerating ad infinitum.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 29, 2023
For institutions like the news media, bad habits die again and again and again ad infinitum until the lesson is learned too late.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
Flies with heads and tails make eggs with heads and tails, which make embryos with heads and tails, which grow into flies with heads and tails, and so forth, ad infinitum.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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